A sermon preached at the funeral of that faithful minister of Christ, Mr. John…

The Kings Licenses encouraged his old flock at Chichester to invite him thither, though they had the help of another Nonconformist before, with whom he joined with love and concord. God many years afflicted him with the disease that was his death; while the pain was tolerable to nature, he endured it, and ceased not Preaching till a fortnight before he was carried up to London to have been cut. But before that could be done, in about a fortnight more he died. This is the short History of his course.

The Kings Licenses encouraged his old flock at Chicestor to invite him thither, though they had the help of another Nonconformist before, with whom he joined with love and concord. God many years afflicted him with the disease that was his death; while the pain was tolerable to nature, he endured it, and ceased not Preaching till a fortnight before he was carried up to London to have been cut. But before that could be done, in about a fortnight more he died. This is the short History of his course.

But I will next give you his true Character, and then tell you how like his case was to Pauls here in my Text, and then tell you to what use I do all this.

I. He was a man so blameless in all his Conversation, that I may say as I did here lately of another (Alderman Ashurst) that I never heard one person accuse or blame him, except for Nonconformity, and that difference from others in these divided times, which his Book expresses. Of which more anon.